U.S. District Judge William Alsup delivered a furious rebuke to the Trump administration over its mass purge of civil servants.

A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of probationary employees fired at the direction of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Probationary employees are federal workers in the first or second year of their employment,

The judge added that the scope of agencies covered under his ruling may expand or narrow, depending on further proceedings in the case.